Kelly Ripa Tells ‘Live’ She “Thought Raw-Dogging Was Something Else Entirely” While Discussing Last Year’s Viral Airplane Trend of Staring at Nothing

One of last year’s travel trends had Kelly Ripa doing a double take.

On Live with Kelly and Mark on Wednesday, after Mark Consuelos read about “the people who love to stare at in-flight maps” on the plane.

“[Live EP Michael] Gelman and I were talking about this. I love a map, especially if we’re flying over the Alps. Even out west, where you’re going over the Rockies,” he gushed.

Ripa teased, “Yeah, you always announce to me what we’re going over.”

Consuelos continued, “I love to see things, if I recognize something. Especially when we start to get a little bit lower and we’re going to a destination. I’m like, ‘Oh, I know where that is. Oh, that’s there.’”

While both Consuelos and Ripa thought that planes with a camera on the nose and the rear make for a “very exciting” and “really cool” experience, the two eventually returned to the topic of those keeping an eye on the in-flight map.

“The practice got a blast of publicity last year amid a social media trend that featured travelers—mostly men—staring straight ahead at maps or blank space during trips to prove something. What was that called?” Consuelos asked, before settling on “raw-dogging.”

Ripa clarified that “raw-dogging is when you stare at nothing,” before admitting, “I thought raw-dogging was something else entirely.”

“I was reading articles about people raw-dogging on a plane, and I was like, ‘They should be arrested!’” she said.

Consuelos agreed, “When i was saying that, I was like, ‘I shouldn’t be saying this.’”

He closed out the conversation on watching in-flight maps by noting that “they say it’s cheaper than buying wi-fi on the plane because it’s free.”

Ripa quipped, “And it works!”

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